In the Western Frontier, within the Golden Toad Divine Palace, the clansmen's spirit tablets lit up.
This was also the moment when the clansmen in the Western Frontier were most fully assembled. They all gathered in the central main hall, looking at the glowing spirit tablets.
"Head back for a trip?" Li Dalong was slightly taken aback.
Ever since killing the Nirvana Sage Elder, he had temporarily stayed in the Western Frontier, leaving the matters of the Underworld to Xuan Tianzi.
When Uncle Rain attacked Azure Cloud Prefecture, the Old Ancestor didn't tell them to return either.
Not knowing what Min Tiange was planning, and with the Blood Moon still reflecting upon the world in the Western Frontier, Li Dalong was deeply intrigued.
"Eldest Brother hasn't returned from his mortal transformation yet," Li Xinnian frowned.
Su Chen was walking in the mortal realm, undergoing mortal transformation, and had completely lost contact.
"It's good to take a trip back. Third Brother broke through to Body Integration; we should congratulate him," Li Yaozu smiled faintly.
He heard that Sword Venerable Drizzle obtained Uncle Rain's Dao and broke through in Azure Cloud Prefecture.
He finally understood why Sword Venerable Drizzle had assisted him back then, allowing his Sword Dao to achieve completion.
"Father is right," Li Yunbing replied.
"The Old Ancestor took a trip to the imperial palace and intimidated the Empress. Now, the high-ranking officials of the Imperial Dynasty all know that our family has produced two Body Integration cultivators.
They will treat our Li Clan with the respect due a hidden immortal clan; no one will dare to act against us recklessly."
As he spoke, Li Yunbing patted Li Xinnian's shoulder.
Over these years, Su Chen hadn't returned, and his status was unknown. The one who cared about Su Chen the most was Xinnian.
He comforted him, "What Min Tiange stole sixty thousand years ago was Su Chen's Dao.
As for how to deal with Min Tiange, Su Chen knows what he is doing. Having cultivated in our clan for so many years, he has also grown a lot."
Li Xinnian felt much more relieved in his heart.
At this time, hurried footsteps sounded outside the room.
Everyone looked over to see Li Tianqi returning. Furthermore, as soon as he returned, he used a Tier-4 array formation to shield them from heavenly secrets.
The clansmen were puzzled. Having returned to their own territory, why use such a method?
He smiled bitterly and shook his head at the clansmen. "Eldest Brother hasn't returned."
Everyone frowned continuously.
Li Tianyi was still guarding Li Tianyue's stone statue; the zither music there had resounded continuously for decades and had not ceased to this day.
Li Tianqi said solemnly,
"Tianyue left something beneath the stone statue, which is why she didn't let anyone move her stone statue back then.
Those immortal soldiers guarding around her were also protecting it on her behalf.
The eldest brother said the reason the Nirvana Sage Elder couldn't discover it was that Tianyue suppressed it with the blood qi from years of slaughtering the Wu Tribe.
No one dared to touch Tianyue's remains. Now that the blood qi is gradually exhausting, the thing beneath the stone statue has slowly appeared."
"What is it?" A trace of sorrow flashed in Li Dalong's eyes as he asked softly.
"The reason Min Tiange unleashed the Blood Moon.
Tianyue... she died from exhausting her Spiritual power and life force. At the very last moment, she detected the grand array beneath the earth veins of Shadowfell Prefecture."
In the moment right before death, people can always detect many things, especially cultivators.
Between being killed and dying from exhaustion, the latter leaves more time to use the spiritual sense to perceive things.
Everyone in the family remained silent.
Li Tianqi exhaled a breath of stale air.
"Beneath the earth veins, there are grand arrays absorbing her and the immortal soldiers' essence qi.
These grand arrays were left entirely intact. Among them are the remnants of the array foundations Fei Heng used to extract the essence qi of the cultivators of Shadowfell Prefecture."
"If we had discovered Fei Heng's strangeness back then, then right now... we would know everything." Li Yunbing clenched his fists tightly.
This was the clue Tianyue left them. He gritted his teeth and smashed his fist onto the tabletop.
"If we had detected Fei Heng and Min Tiange's cooperation earlier..."
"There are no 'ifs'."
Li Yaozu patted Li Yunbing's shoulder, then looked at Li Tianqi, a look of doubt on his face.
"You said among them was one of the array foundations..."
"There are still arrays underneath. The arrays are like leaf veins, facing west along with Tianyue, pointing directly at the Wu Tribe." Li Tianqi narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Tianyue's blood qi hadn't been fully exhausted, so the map of the array veins remained on Tianyue's body.
The veins only disappeared when the blood qi concealing the diagram was fully depleted."
"This array is combined with some profound Dao method unseen in the world.
If it hadn't dissipated at the moment of her death, not even my Dao cultivation as a Tier-4 array master could have detected it."
Li Tianqi said faintly, "Eldest Brother said Tianyue saved our lives, and we had best listen to the Old Ancestor and leave the Western Frontier immediately."
"Min Tiange's Dao method?" Li Dalong's expression changed slightly.
"He is the master of Dao Seeds, manipulating people's hearts... for tens of thousands of years already."
Li Tianqi pointed at the Blood Moon outside the array formation, filling the clansmen's hearts with horror.
"I don't know if he is watching us at every moment. That array formation connects all places where blood qi exists."
"The array formation disappeared in just a moment. Eldest Brother and I watched closely, but we didn't glimpse the complete array.
However, at the very least, it is connected to all of our blood qi. It either absorbs our Spiritual power and essence qi, or simply plants Dao Seeds in us."
He looked around at everyone.
"The longer you stay under the Blood Moon, the easier it is to have a Dao Seed planted in you.
Perhaps there are already people in the Western Frontier who have been planted with Dao Seeds."
Hearing this, the family members checked their minds and souls in horror.
"We must go back. If even we were planted with them, then hardly anyone in the entire Western Frontier could be spared."
Li Dalong narrowed his eyes. "We cannot stay in the Western Frontier any longer."
The Golden Toad Divine Palace bounded through the Western Frontier, heading toward Azure Cloud Prefecture.
The family members were weighed down with heavy thoughts.
Through the Golden Toad Divine Palace, they looked at the Blood Moon in the sky, and then toward the location of Li Tianyue's stone statue in Shadowfell Prefecture.
Only now did they realize everything.
Just as Li Tianyi said, their lives were saved by Tianyue.
And the Blood Moon...
"We lost. We lost before we even fought." Li Xinnian sat in his chair, his expression despondent.
The family members were speechless.
They had guarded against the Blood Moon in the Western Frontier for years, only waiting for Min Tiange to show himself so they could resolve all new and old grudges entirely.
It was just that they had severely underestimated Min Tiange's methods and ambitions.
Having achieved too many victories over these years, they underestimated Min Tiange.
Over these years, they had cultivated fiercely, dealt with Nun Dairou and the Nirvana Sage Elder, and even struck down Uncle Rain in Azure Cloud Prefecture.
Yet now, they hadn't even caught a shadow of Min Tiange.